[blam]

"I would also agree that the Thera event is almost certainly linked to the exodus story."

I read a report on one guys study to tie the plume of the Thera volcano to the words, Staff by day, Torch by night, from the bible. He concluded that the plume would have to be 30 miles high to fit the bill. The recent Pinatubo volcano in the Phillipines was 26 miles high. So......

[Concentrate]

Interesting historical posts. Happy New Year, blam!

[Dominic Harr]

Yep. I've also seen interesting speculation that the 'plagues of Egypt' track very well to common pre-eruption behavior. Frogs coming up from the ground, the river running red, the plague, the locusts.

And some *very* interesting speculation that the 'parting of the Red Sea' actually refers to the 'sea of reeds' area on the coast, and the 'parting' refers to the tidal wave that came after the eruption (the water receeds before a tidal wave comes in).